Leonard Feather
Birth name	Leonard Geoffrey Feather
Born	13 September 1914
Origin	London, U.K.
Died	22 September 1994
Genre(s)	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Pianist Composer
Instrument(s)	Piano

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Feather was born in London into a strictly conformist upper-middle-class Jewish family. He learnt to play the piano and clarinet (though was not formally trained), and had started writing about jazz and film by his late teens. At the age of twenty-one Feather made his first visit to the United States, and after working in the U.K. and the U.S. as a record producer finally settled in New York City in 1939, where he lived until moving to Los Angeles, California, in 1960. He died in Sherman Oaks at the age of eighty. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Sherman Oaks is a district of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. ...

Feather's compositions have been widely recorded, and some of his own recordings are still available, but it was as a writer on jazz (journalist, critic, historian, and campaigner) that he made his biggest mark: "Feather was for a long time the most widely read and most influential writer on jazz."^[1] Even jazz enthusiasts who didn't read his books and articles would have known him from the liner notes that he wrote for hundreds of jazz albums. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ...

Robert Goffin, Benny Carter, and Louis Armstrong (L to R), with Leonard Feather in 1942.

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Partial bibliography

• 1956: The Encyclopedia Yearbook of Jazz (Horizon)
  • 1993 reprint (Da Capo) ISBN 0306805294
• 1977: Inside Jazz (Da Capo) ISBN 0306800764
• 1977: Pleasures of Jazz (Delacorte) ISBN 0385287860
• 1987: From Satchmo to Miles (Da Capo) ISBN 1417618922
• 1987: Encyclopedic Yearbook of Jazz reprint (Da Capo) ISBN 0306762897
• 1987: The Jazz Years — Earwitness to an Era (Da Capo)
• 1988: Book of Jazz (Horizon) ISBN 0818012021
• 1999: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz co-written with Ira Gitler, second (revised) edition (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195074181
• 2000: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Discography

• 1937–1945: Leonard Feather 1937–1945 (Classics)
• 1951: Leonard Feather's Swingin' Swedes (Prestige)
• 1954: Dixieland vs. Birdland (MGM)
• 1954: Cats Vs. Chicks (MGM)
• 1954: Winter Sequence (MGM)
• 1956: West Coast vs. East Coast (MGM)
• 1956: Swingin' on the Vibories (MGM)
• 1957: Hi-Fi Suite (MGM)
• 1957: 52nd Street (VSOP)
• 1958: Swingin' Seasons (MGM)
• 1959: Jazz from Two Sides (Concept)
• 1971: Night Blooming Jazzmen (Mainstream)
• 1971: Freedom Jazz Dance (Mainstream)
• 1971–1972: Night Blooming (Mainstream)
• 1972: All-Stars (Mainstream)
• 1997: Presents Bop (Tofrec)

Notes

1. ^ Brian Priestley, in Carr, Fairweather, & Priestley, p.248

Sources and external links

• The Leonard Feather Scrapbooks
• Leonard Feather — brief biography by Scott Yanow, for AllMusic.
• Carr, Ian, Digby Fairweather, & Brian Priestley. Jazz: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-528-3
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-140-51521-6